Linguine Chicken Tetrazzini

Snowmaggedon is apparently coming for the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton, so you better run out and grab all the ingredients for this super cozy Linguine Chicken Tetrazzini ASAP.

I'm diverging from my normal healthy meal routine to bring you the most delicious pasta recipe ever. It's really rich, it's probably loaded with fat and calories, but it's WELL worth it, and I had to document it for the little old blog. I mean, what is life without a bit of balance, right???And this Linguine Chicken Tetrazzini recipe is a copy cat of one of my fave restaurants, East Side Mario's. Well, it used to be my fave pasta place…as a kid…

Actually, if I remember correctly they even used to have frozen TV dinners of this stuff. My friend's mom would drive to the States and load up the family's second freezer with all kinds of delicious frozen food. Back then the States had so many different kinds of food that just wasn't available in Canada, especially when it came to junk food.

And yes, honestly, as a kid, I would liveeeee for TV dinners. They were kind of like a special treat considering my mom would never buy any. You know when something that is off-limits becomes even more appealing than it really is? That was the case for me and packaged foods at home.

So needless to say whenever I had sleepovers at my friend's house, we got into the TV dinners hard. Here we were at her cute little house in the country traipsing out to the garage where the second freezer was picking out East Side Mario's TV dinners to eat in our pajamas while watching Saturday morning cartoons or Simpson's re-runs.

This was clearly before I really cared about counting calories or exercising or making sure I was eating enough fruit and veg and trying to be all healthy-like. Do we all think of our pre-teenage food memories this fondly??

Well, today I'm bringing you the real deal. The legit, rich-as-hell, creamy Linguine Chicken Tetrazzini copy cat from East Side Mario's, and this stuff is mind-bogglingly delicious.???

Probably because there's two whole cups of cream in there, which both inspires and intimidates me at the same time.

But also because there's grilled chicken, bruschetta, and a little thing I like to call garlic roasted mushrooms, which should probably have their own recipe post on my blog considering the giant mushroom fan I am.

In fact, I don't think any other pasta dish will ever be complete again without the addition of these magical mushrooms. I might have popped about 7 or 8 into my mouth while in the middle of creating this recipe because they're just so hard to resist. And all that's standing between you and them is about 25 minutes, a bit of olive oil and some garlic.

Simple, yet absolutely genius.?

I know I'm posting this recipe on a Monday when technically we should all be thinking about healthy diet resets and getting back to routine and all that, but sometimes you really just need to have a little fun to look forward to at the end of a Monday.

I mean, it's really up to you if you wanna save this bad boy til Friday or Saturday, or date night or a fancy dinner party or what have you. It will definitely go over well with a crowd.

But I'm not going to judge you if you've had a rough day, and all you want is a big pot of steaming hot, creamy alfredo sauce and garlicky, juicy bruschetta, grilled chicken and these fab roasted mushrooms. These are most certainly my Monday goals as well.??

This isn't even the first time I've done bruschetta and pasta together as a meal. In fact, if you're craving everyone's all-time favourite appetizer I can guarantee you that there a million ways to turn this crowd-pleaser into a meal. This is just one more excuse for me to eat more bruschetta.

Will you be cooking up some of this Linguine Chicken Tetrazzini?

I promise you that this will quickly become your new favourite pasta recipe. I have already had family fight over it, and now I have to make it again fairly soon if I don't want anyone to hold a grudge against me and the ways I choose to divy up leftovers. *Sigh*, the life of a professional home cook, right?

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Bruschetta

4plum tomatoes, deseeded and diced

1tbspolive oil

1/2tspbalsamic vinegar

4garlic cloves, minced

1/4cupchopped fresh basil

1/2tspsalt

Instructions

Preheat grill to med-high. Add chicken and grill for 7-8 min per side. If not using BBQ, preheat oven to 425 F. Place chicken in a small oven-safe dish and cook in oven for 20 min. Once chicken is cooked, let cool then slice across the grain into bite-sized pieces.

Meanwhile, make bruschetta by mixing all ingredients together. Preheat oven to 450 F and toss olive oil, mushrooms, garlic and a little bit of salt and pepper in a large bowl. Transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for 25 min, stirring every so often. Mushrooms can be made ahead of time and refrigerated for up to 3 days.

Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, melt butter in a medium-sized saucepan. Add flour and whisk to combine. Slowly stir in milk, whisking along the way. Add cream and stir. Wait until mixture comes just to a boil, then add cheese, salt and pepper.

Drain pasta, and add to cream sauce. Add bruschetta, garlic roasted mushrooms, and sliced chicken, tossing to combine. Cook mixture for another 3-4 min until all ingredients are hot. Remove from heat and stir in parsley. Serve and enjoy!

About Taylor Stinson

Hey there, my name's Taylor! I’m the founder of The Girl on Bloor, a food blog where I share healthy meal prep recipes for busy people. I'm a busy city girl living in downtown Toronto on (you guessed it!) Bloor Street. I also run the awesome 5-Day Meal Prep Challenge, which is a free email course and Facebook group where I share my meal planning strategies and easy meal prep tips and recipes. Be sure to check out my free beginner’s guide to meal prep and follow me on YouTube and Instagram to get my latest recipes and healthy eating inspiration.

Comments

I loooove creamy pasta dishes. And I’ve been meaning to make chicken tetrazzini at home for a while now, I guess you beat me to it! I’ve been eating really healthy the last few days, and I’m feeling pretty hungry right now. These photos aren’t helping. *whimper* Lol re: the TV dinners thing. I can relate to pre-packaged foods being off-limits as a kid. That made me laugh!

Lmaooooo I’m so glad someone else feels me on the TV dinners!!! Nowadays I still eat the Loblaws PC Blue Menu ones every now and then…And yes this pasta is crazy good but I don’t even wanna know the calories hehe

Yummy! It was a lot of work to make but totally worth it. I wasn’t sure what size box of pasta to use. I had the small box of linguine and it was perfect. I also added 1 cup of milk and the 2 cups cream. The instructions say milk and cream but the ingredients just say cream. It seemed to work. This is delicious and I will be adding this to my collection of recipes for sure. Thanks for sharing.

Hi Lee-Anne! I’m so happy this turned out for you! 🙂 This is definitely one of my older and more involved recipes but it’s such a good treat meal for a weekend in! I’ve updated the recipe based on your feedback on timing and the pasta box size (I used a 375g box of Catelli linguine) I’ve also fixed it to read 1 cup of milk and 2 cups of cream (that’s actually exactly it so good guess and I apologize for the unclear directions). So glad you liked this recipe!

I’m so happy to hear that Emma!!! This is definitely one of my favourite recipes to indulge in for a special occasion! I find East Side Mario’s doesn’t serve enough toppings so I just do it myself hahah. Glad to hear you loved it!